Greetings from Montevideo, Uruguay! My name is Martin Steffen and I use NetBeans IDE in my work as a developer. Also, I use NetBeans IDE in my career as a student. I use NetBeans IDE for all my projects and always have installed the latest NetBeans IDE version (waiting for the new support of HTML5 :) in NetBeans IDE 7.3).

To develop the project with Gradle and NetBeans IDE, I follow the steps below:

Open the NetBeans Terminal window (Window | Output | Terminal) and run "gradle jettyRun", as you can see here:

Right-click the project node in the Projects window and choose "build", as you can see here:

Go to your browser and see your running application!

End of development cycle. :)

When I modify JSP pages, and static resources (HTML/JS/CSS), I don't need to rebuild the project because you seethe changesin thebrowserinstantly. When I modify a Java class, I only need to re-build the project (but don't need to stop Jetty), that is, when building the project Jetty automatically redeploys the app for you.

Open the browser when running a project; ifit is not verydifficult to implementthiswould begood to have.

Enable version control when right-clicking a project. The version control is disabled for Gradle projects as you can see in the second image above, while for Ant projects it is enabled, as you can see below:

Automatically build a project on saving. In Ant projects, you can check the option "Compile on Save" as you can see below: